Effects of a butterfly scale microstructure on the iridescent color observed at different angles

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 87-92

  Tada, Haruna ^a   Mann, Seth E ^a   Miaoulis, Ioannis N ^a   Wong, Peter Y ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; COHERENT LIGHT; COLOR; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPES; RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTURES;

AIR GAPS; IRIDESCENT COLORS; MICRORIBS; RIDGES; SPECTRAL REFLECTIVITY;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0013372636     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000087     Document Type: Article

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